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How did you find your voice as an artist ? Leaving NZ and looking for a new challenge, I settled in England in 1983 where, after several years of part-time art courses I won a place on a degree course which began what has become my life’s work. Painting by Lee Campbell: Morning Mist, 2017, Oil on canvas, 60 x…

How did you come to art ? I was born fatherless and my mother was disabled. No sooner had I been born, I was placed in an orphanage. As far as I remember, before I was given pencils and papers, I enjoyed drawing on the ground with twigs and pebbles all the time. It was before I turned 4 years…

Nick Malone crosses art forms to create adventures through narrative, soundscape, drawing and painting. He was initially a writer, but left academic life to become a full-time artist, gaining an MA in Fine Art from Central St Martins in 2006, and has exhibited extensively, both in London and internationally. He has received an Arts Council England Award to support him…

Could you briefly present yourself and your artistic singularity? As a person I would describe myself as a thinker and someone who is wholly and completely in love with life. After a rough start with a rather traumatic childhood and fairly troubled teenage years which were generally quite full of fear, my brain had a few breakthroughs, the first of…

Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your artistic singularity? I have always been creative and artistic my whole life. As a kid, I would prefer to paint, draw or do crafts rather than play soccer or climb trees outside. My first real art show was at a local restaurant called Jane Bond in Waterloo where I grew…

Can you tell us a bit about you? How did you come to art, or how did art come to you? I’ve always been haunted by the desire to paint. But very academic schooling (which required giving up art aged 13 or 14) was followed by 25 years in law and legal education. But the desire to paint was too…

Can you tell us a bit about you? I was born in the United States, in Phoenix, Arizona. At the age of eight I began playing percussion. I drew my inspiration from my mother, who is a multi-instrumental musician, and her parents, who were both jazz musicians. From the age of eight to eighteen, music was my primary passion and…

What is your artistic singularity? I’m still working with fine artistic practices like a painting, graffics depicting the local nature and it’s everyday scenery, balancing between the abstract and the concrete, using academic knowledge and combining them with the study of the technical possibilities of representing an artistic work. How was it growing up in an artistic family? And what…

Could you briefly describe yourself? How did you come to photography? My name is Yannis Davy Guibinga, I am a 22 years old photographer from Libreville, Gabon currently based in Montreal, Canada. I initially started photography back in high-school as a way to distract myself with my friends. In your work you explore the diversity of the African continent and…

Please introduce yourself to us! I’m a professional artist living and working in Los Angeles, after having been raised all over the world by a family of creative global nomads. I’m passionate about creativity, connection and collaboration. In your work you explore femininity, boundaries and urban scenes – how do you do this and what ideas do you want to…